Retired educator living in N.C. wants to challenge U.S. Sen. Kay Hagan

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Sep 26, 2013 at 12:01 AMSep 26, 2013 at 2:53 PM

Fred Westphal , a retired educator who lives outside of Fayetteville, says he plans to challenge U.S. Sen. Kay Hagan in next year’s Democratic primary.

“She doesn’t have a chance against me,” Westphal, 76, told The Fayetteville Observer this week. “She won’t get the party nomination.”

Hagan, who was elected to the U.S.Senate in 2008, is running for a second term next year. Several Republican candidates are planning to run for their party’s nomination in May to challenger her on the ballot next fall.

The filing period to run in next year’s midterm elections is in February.

Westphal said he taught for 42 years at the University of Miami (Fla) and has recently moved to North Carolina. He was living in Pinebluff, he said, and now Sanford, but plans to relocate soon to Fayetteville.

According to Westphal’s U.S. Senate 2014 campaign website , he has dabbled in politics before, leading a grassroots movement against an executive order by then-Gov. Jeb Bush of Florida, and more recently, running successfully as a Democratic candidate for the governor of Wisconsin. He moved to Wisconsin, he said in 2007 to live near his son. He said he was the victim of a “media blackout” of his candidacy in Wisconsin.

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